Nanda describes a phenomenon in India that strongly resembles what Jeffery Herf calls 'reactionary modernism' in his study of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.

This is an outlook that enabled Germans to accept modern scientific technology while at the same time they adopted politically illiberal and reactionary policies and rejected much of the rationality of the enlightenment that informs science. Her thesis is that contemporary India is in the grip of a version of reactionary modernism in which political nationalism is accompanied by technological advance; but the science that informs it has been stripped of its enlightenment context and relocated within the context of nationalistic religion, 'Vedic Science'. The stripping and relocation fits admirably with doctrines from Western science studies that claim that all knowledge is 'local', that scientific belief is culturally caused, that power and knowledge are one, that there is no universal rationality to science and that all scientific belief and its...

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